Word: hegger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Love from Gracie, by Grace Hegger Lewis. Candid reminiscences by the first wife of Sinclair Lewis about life with the man who created Babbitt very nearly in his own image (TIME, Sept...
There was something of Babbitt in his creator, Sinclair Lewis, and there was something of Carol Kennicott in his first wife, Grace Hegger Lewis. Gracie was, Lewis once wrote, "all the good part of Carol." This lends an uncommon interest to what would otherwise be a commonplace biography-Grace's account of her years with...
Gracie Was a Lady. She met Harry Sinclair Lewis after he had come to Manhattan from his native Sauk Center, Minn., via Yale. It happened in 1912 when young Hal-his friends called him "Red" for his thin, gingerish thatch-saw a lady across a tearoom. It was Grace Hegger, daughter of a Catholic German-American art dealer. She had golden hair, a job on Vogue, and she brought out the romantic in Hal, who wrote her some of the goofiest poetry boy ever wrote girl...
...gallantry of an ex-wife could go no further. Not the least charming thing about this book is that Grace Hegger Lewis seems utterly unconscious of how irritating a good woman can be. Few will grudge her right to say the last word because she has said it gracefully; yet the traditional artist-wife dilemma intrudes through the narrative. Gracie wanted a home and Lewis wanted anything...